Mental Health Benefits Of Running

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Running has been important to me my entire life, but I didn’t know it when I was in high school. Even though I would go out and do conditioning sprints for football and run for hours, I hated running in track. I never saw myself as a runner back then, even though I was.

Maybe it was because when I was running long distances in high school, I always associated them with gaining slow twitch muscles, which…